Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics

The remarkable history of forged and fabricated Islamic ceramics, their makers, and their unique role in colonial trade

In the heyday of Islamic art collecting around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of premodern ceramic objects circulated on the international antiquities market. Invisible Hands tells the story of how traditional craft skills of the Islamic world, often thought to have died out with the advent of industrialization, were redirected toward a thriving new market in ...